OpenAI · US
Join OpenAI’s Industrial Compute team to lead clean energy and emerging technology strategy, ensuring scalable, low-carbon infrastructure growth that aligns with global sustainability goals. This individual contributor role will evaluate, pilot, and deploy cutting-edge energy solutions to power resilient, cost-effective data centers.
About the Role
OpenAI, in collaboration with capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team drives core infra strategy — from site selection to buildout — at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations. As Clean Energy and New Technology Lead, you’ll own the strategy and execution of clean energy and emerging technologies to enable resilient, low-carbon compute growth. You’ll work with regulatory, policy, engineering, finance, and legal teams to align technology with sustainability goals. This is a senior, cross-functional role with no direct reports initially, but significant influence on infrastructure decisions. You’ll translate technical options into clear operational and regulatory implications, build repeatable frameworks, and partner with stakeholders to move promising technologies from concept to commercial execution.
What You Will Do
Evaluate emerging energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, water-related energy efficiency, and other scalable technologies where relevant.
Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways that can move promising energy technologies from concept to commercially and operationally credible execution.
Translate technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications for infrastructure decision-making.
Partner with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align technology and sustainability choices with project needs.
Track external market, policy, utility, and technology developments.
Build repeatable evaluation frameworks, partner criteria, and execution playbooks for sustainability and emerging energy technology initiatives.
What We Are Looking For
15+ years in energy technology, infrastructure sustainability, clean energy procurement, power markets, data center energy strategy, utility programs, or related roles.
Strong understanding of power systems, low-carbon energy, grid constraints, infrastructure reliability, and the practical requirements of large-scale deployment.
Experience evaluating emerging technologies, structuring pilots, or moving early-stage solutions toward commercial implementation.
Ability to balance sustainability objectives with reliability, cost, schedule, regulatory, and operational constraints.
Proven cross-functional leadership across technical, commercial, policy, and executive stakeholders.
Excellent analytical, written communication, and executive-summary skills.
This is a remote role based in the US, with full-time commitment. OpenAI values diversity and inclusion, and is an equal opportunity employer. Apply to shape the future of AI infrastructure and sustainability.